Results for month: December, 2013

I am a 4th grade math teacher, and I love CC standards. I’ve been teaching to them and my students are making HUGE gains in math. My question is about PARCC. I have looked online at the protocol questions and cannot figure out what […]

There are so many choices: kids will be reading more challenging texts; close reading will revolutionize the reading lessons; high school English, science, and social studies teachers will teach disciplinary literacy; there will be greater attention to argument, multiple text, informational text, and […]

MCVIP is a research and development project funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. MCVIP is based on Graves’s (2006, 2009) four-component vocabularyprogram, which includes “(1) providing rich and varied language experiences; (2) teaching individual words; (3) teaching […]